In the assignments tool the evaluation elements are created in order. If you want to re-order them after creation , it does not allow you to do so. It would be a great idea to have an icono os something that allows to put some evaluations in the order the teacher wants.

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Such a change would require adding a field that would store the order of elements in the gradebook_item table. Adding a field means database change, which cannot be done between 2 minor versions, so moving to 1.10 goal.